tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post2189823350042258378..comments2024-03-10T16:42:34.106-04:00Comments on Collecting Children's Books: The Return of Sunday BrunchPeter D. Sierutahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301507180150710089noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-83466823744063875542008-05-07T20:05:00.000-04:002008-05-07T20:05:00.000-04:00That was one wild brunch...Coincidentally, I have ...That was one wild brunch...<BR/><BR/>Coincidentally, I have a Trina Schart Hyman post up as part of Helen Cresswell Week:<BR/>http://riddleburger.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/helen-cresswell-week-trina-schart-hymans-covers/Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492841891625994218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-84278920338375621932008-05-07T09:14:00.000-04:002008-05-07T09:14:00.000-04:00Everything on a Waffle: I loved the first two thir...Everything on a Waffle: I loved the first two thirds, but wanted to pitch the book out the window at the end. I've never trusted Polly Horvath since.Sarah Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02153201454830937349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-89148576721673423272008-05-06T09:51:00.000-04:002008-05-06T09:51:00.000-04:00Wow...Peter, I was going to drop in and say congra...Wow...Peter, I was going to drop in and say congrats on your 100th post (have been reading since Roger linked to your April Fools' post) and I open your comments and see that the place is packed with famous people. So much for my piddly little congrats. Wow on the Crescent Dragonwagon story of the tablecloth! Cool!<BR/>albAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-88246402081140276242008-05-04T21:32:00.000-04:002008-05-04T21:32:00.000-04:00Hey, Peter. How happy, and astonished, I am to hav...Hey, Peter. How happy, and astonished, I am to have happened into brunch at your place! Because I have a new book out about cornbread (for adults), THE CORNBREAD GOSPELS, I have one of those Google alert things: an email pops up whenever someone includes my name and the word "cornbread" in a blog... And so, here we are at table together. <BR/><BR/>Speaking of which: the signed tablecloth.More on that later. First:<BR/><BR/>Sometimes, because far fewer picture books are being published these days, and also as I watch my mother (Charlotte Zolotow, as maybe some of you know and some not) age, I am around her view (which is sadness that what she sees as the legacy of attentive editing that she and Ursula Nordstrom pioneered is not being carried on), it's easy to forget how many people truly love and are passionate about children's books. Still, now, and always. I LOVE remembering and rediscovering this, and I will read your post aloud to my mother... I know it will spark lots of memories and stories for her (for instance, she edited M.E. Kerr for a long time). As fuse#8 says, the sheer amount of what you offer is inspiring, not only in quantity but in minutiae, connection, thoughtfulness, passion. I know Charlotte will really love hearing it. <BR/><BR/>Okay, tablecloth: The only thing I can think is that back when I owned the inn in Arkansas with my late husband, Ned, we had an annual holiday party for friends, family, and inn staff. Part of the tradition was a tablecloth, with a big white center and a handmade patchwork border. Whoever was part of the party that year would sign the white part of the cloth, and I, somehow (usually just before the following year's party), would embroider in all the names. <BR/><BR/>Each year had a particular color and nationality and it was all coded: the border had the year and theme, for instance "1991* Country French" , and if it was embroidered in a certain shade of blue, you knew that all the names in that shade of blue were present that year, at that dinner. A lot of fun, highly festive, but while I always enjoyed doing it once I was sitting down doing it, it was so time-consuming. I still have it, and use it occasionally, but retired the embroidery tradition around the time we closed the inn (1998). I believe the tablecloth was once written up somewhere, or possibly the person might have been someone who was part of the festivities? No idea. <BR/><BR/>That's a long answer to a short question. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I am delighted you are enjoying the cornbread; I think the one you mean is the same one that's the first recipe in this book, the Dairy Hollow House Skillet-Sizzled. <BR/><BR/>I have recently started a blog, "Nothing is wasted on the writer.", at http://crescentdragonwagon.typepad.com/nothing_is_wasted_crescen/<BR/>... the description is, "<BR/>Cooking, eating, living, loving, writing, reading, thinking. Listening, tasting, sniffing. Cozying up to mystery at midlife. I think we're all part of the narrative life tells itself about itself." <BR/><BR/>Which I do. And some of that narrative wraps in and around children's books, and so will the blog, at times. So, of course, you're invited to participate. I am just, JUST getting started, but eventually of course I'll have links all over the place and... for sure I see how it could be addictive<BR/><BR/>Anyway, a happy meeting here. <BR/><BR/>I will take my waffle with sliced strawberries, please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-50938495732065684372008-05-04T18:47:00.000-04:002008-05-04T18:47:00.000-04:00I don't know how you do it, but the sheer amount o...I don't know how you do it, but the sheer amount of information you write is inspiring... and depressing on those days I don't get a good post going. Glad to hear that we see eye to eye on the Horvath book. That makes two.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-34627904606555753102008-05-04T15:59:00.000-04:002008-05-04T15:59:00.000-04:00Welcome back!! I waited and waited and finally wen...Welcome back!! I waited and waited and finally went to our local "Little Brown Shack" but I must say your menu is better.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13070658593726387619noreply@blogger.com